Diana Ringo

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Diana Ringo
Diana Ringo.jpg
Ringo in 2017
Born (1992-03-08) March 8, 1992 (age 32)
NationalityFinnish
Occupations
  • Film director
  • producer
  • screenwriter
  • composer
  • musician
  • visual artist
Musical career
Genres
Instruments
Website dianaringo.com

Diana Ringo (born 8 March 1992) is a Finnish film director, composer and visual artist. She is best known for the films Quarantine (2021) and 1984 (2023). [1] [2] [3]

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Biography

Diana was born in the family of Finnish researcher Reijo Mononen and Russian-Finnish artist Elena Ringo. Her great-grandfathers are inventor Josef Ringo [4] and mathematician Sergey Nikolsky. [5]

Her director debut is dystopian feature film drama Quarantine (2021) [6] which was shortlisted for the 2022 Golden Globes as a foreign entry. [7] [8] She was also composer of the film and for the film's score she wrote 26 original tracks.

In November 2022 it was announced that her feature film based on George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four would be released in 2023. [9] [10] [11] Her film 1984 was released on 15 November 2023.

Diana Ringo's directorial style has been compared to the works of Andrei Tarkovsky, Terrence Malick and Aleksandr Sokurov. [12]

Her music for the film Million Loves in Me by Sampson Yuen won the award for the Best Original Score at the LAFA Awards in 2020. [13] She also composed the score for the Santa Monica College short film Hinge by Lisa Mayo in 2019.

Diana grew up in Helsinki and was interested in music since early childhood. At the age of five, pianist Dmitry Soloviev, discovered that Diana has perfect pitch. She started to study piano and Soloviev became her first music teacher. [1] [14]

She studied piano with famous pianists such as Janne Mertanen, Risto Lauriala. She has attended master classes by the Hollywood composer Lalo Schifrin, directors Paul Verhoeven and David Lynch.

Diana Ringo is a classically educated pianist. Her original compositions combine classical and romantic influences with modern electronics and synthesizers. Her favorite classical composers are Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. Film score composers whose works have influenced Diana Ringo include Ennio Morricone, Dmitri Shostakovich, Michel Legrand, Giorgio Moroder and Lalo Schifrin. [1] [4] [15]

In 2020 Diana Ringo was the first Finnish woman to pose in the Playboy Spain magazine. [16] [17] [18]

As a visual artist and painter, Diana works with oil, gouache, digital techniques, collage and mixed media. [3] [19]

Filmography

Film director

Composer

Awards

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